Evan Say What did the Zodiac Killer do? The zodiac killer is an unidentified serial killer who is confirmed to be responsible for at least 5 deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1968 to 1969. While it may be regarded as one of the largest mysteries of the 20th century what did he do in that timespan? The first confirmed incident took place on the night of December 20, 1968, when David Faraday and his girlfriend Betty Lou Jensen were shot to death at a remote spot on Lake Herman Road, on the outskirts of Vallejo California. Then, on the early morning of July 5, 1969, Darlene Ferrin and her boyfriend, Mike Mageau were sitting in parked car in a similarly remote Vallejo location when they were approached by a man who fired multiple shots at them, killing …show more content…
Within an hour of the incident, a man called the local police, giving them the location of the crime scene and claiming responsibility for both that attack and the 1968 murders of Faraday and Jensen. Despite this and Mageau's description of the assailant, little progress was made in the case. It is clear from these killings of teenage couples that this was the killer's main target group. On August 1, 1969, three San Francisco newspapers each received an identical handwritten letter in an envelope without a return address. It began "Dear Editor: I am the killer of the 2 teenagers last Christmas at Lake Herman" (Biography, 4) with details from the murders and threats of attacks if they were not featured in the paper. Each letter was closed with a symbol consisting of a circle and a cross and was accompanied by a three-part cipher that he claimed to contain his identity. Then days later high school teacher Donald Harden and his wife Bettye were able to solve it, which began "I like killing people because it is so much fun." (Biography, 5) This cipher was part of what made this case one of the most mysterious in modern criminology and it inspired many films and books. On September 27, 1969, he
The night of March 1st 1932, Charles Lindbergh a Aviator famous for flying across the atlantic, got home early because he did not go to a presentation in New York he claimed he forgot. He climbed a ladder to Charlie's room and snuck him out without anyone noticing. Then he drove away only a couple of miles, murdered Charlie
In fact, the exact number and identities of all their victims may never be known. The closest estimate that is capable of being given in regards to the number of victims is anywhere from eleven to twenty-five victims, and much of that is speculation based on those who went missing while the two killers were operating in northern California during that time. A list of possible victims of the killers include all the following: Donald Lake, Charles Gunnar, Robin Stapley, Paul Cosner, Harvey Dubs, Deobrah Dubs, Sean Dubs, Brenda O 'Conner, Lonnie Bond, Lonnie Bond Jr., Kathleen Allen, Mike Carrol, Jeffrey Askern, Randy Jacobson, Cheryl Okoro, Maurice Wok, Donald Giuletti, Clifford Parenteau, and Jeffrey Gerald, as well as some unidentified unfortunates (Newton,
The Zodiac Killer is an unidentified man who is presumed to be a serial killer that operated in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Murdering at least five people, but the Zodiac claims to have killed upwards of 37 people in total. In 1969 the Zodiac Killer began sending letters to the Bay Area newspapers, taking credit for the five killings and threatening further violence. The Zodiac Killer would call and send cryptic letters to the law enforcement agencies in Northern California, taunting them since they were unable to bring him to justice. The police had suspects but none that they could ever charge for the murders, due to lack of evidence, so this mystery still remains unsolved. The cultural impact that the Zodiac Killer has had on tv, movies and the media is still around today and has had many shows and movies remade after what this killer did. The cultural impact as well as for the families of the victims still remains today with still no closure, for those families who live in Northern California still there is the fear that crosses the minds on how such an awful criminal was once a part of their society, someone they may
Zodiac’s career, which would become the most cerebral murder case of all time, began in Riverside California on the night of October 30, 1966. The first victim, Cheri Jo Bates, a young student at the university was brutally murdered outside the college library. She was stabbed 42 times with a knife with a small blade. Following the stabbings, her throat was slit so brutally that it secered her larynx, jugular, and carotid artery. Authorities classified the extreme brutality of the murder “overkill”, which typically happened in cases where the victim and perpetrator are acquainted.
The mysterious person did not have a real name because no one was able to identify him. The murder gave his a name which was the Zodiac Killer. The Zodiac Killer was responsible for five murders in California during the late 1960s. The Zodiac Killers first two murders was on December of 1968 in Benicia, California. David Farraday, who was 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, who was 16, were the first two of a series of murders by the Zodiac Killer. The two of them were inside a parked, when the Zodiac Killer came up behind them and shot them. A similar case happened to the next victim of the mysterious killer. The following year, on July 4, 1969, another couple were shot dead in their car, in Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo, California. 22 year old Darlene Ferrin was shot dead, but Michael Mageau, who was 19 years old survived the shots. The strange thing after these murders is that the police received a phone call from an unidentified person that confessed to murdering those people. The next killings occurred two months later, on September 27, 1969. Two couples were also in a parked car in Lake Berryessa in Napa County. Cecelia Shepard and Brian Hartnell were shot at by the killer, but Brian Hartnell, who was 20 years old survived the mu...
In California, December 20, 1968, Zodiac attacked Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday. This was his first significant criminal act. In a matter of 2 or 3 minutes, the attack was finished and he drove casually away from the scene. He showed no signs of remorse and seemed very calm about all of his actions. After the attack of these two people-murdering the female-Zodiac would have read about his actions in local newspapers, listened to it on a radio report, or watched it on a local news report on the tv. Seven months later he attacked Darlene Ferrin and Micheal Mageau on July 4, 1969, killing the woman of course. Afterward he phoned the Vallejo Police departement to brag about what he did. He also wrote to three newspapers to brag.
The most well known serial killer of the 1970’s; Ted Bundy. At least 29 Women dead at the hands of Ted Bundy.Ted Bundy began his killing spree in 1974. He would rape and kill women. Bundy has claimed to have killed 29 women, but it’s said that there could be more. It wasn’t until 1975 that he was caught. Ted Bundy outwit the police time and time again especially by looking like the guy next door. As a result of Ted Bundy serial killing, law enforcement has become smarter and better enforced.
June of 1963 two seniors skipping school went to the nearby beach to sunbathe. This supposed day off turned out to be forever; they were found in a burning shack tied up and shot many times by a “.22 caliber weapon”(Butterfield). Robert was shot times 11, Linda 9 times, because they tried to escape. Robert’s father, a worried parent, went to look for them at the beach when
By the time he was even mentioned 20 years later the fingerprints were long gone. For me this is a hard case to even come close to evaluating each murder had to have some amount of thought put into it each witness only catching a glimpse of this man, the Zodiac killer’s either originates from the Zodiac brand of watch popular at the time or from the astrological symbols ( Leo, Capricorn, Aquarius, etc..) He was just insane and developed an ego in one of his letters he explained that each person he killed would be a slave in his after life. Not knowing who exactly the Zodiac is but going through his motives it's not right to call this monstrous madman a genius but that’s exactly what he was an insane genius, he couldn’t stop and by the time he had outsmarted police enough to keep in writing contact with editors had a sense of ease about him and as time passed so did his claim to be the Zodiac killer, but still I highly doubt he quit killing he would write editors saying that the chief of police deserved his and this and that but he is no more than a immorally wrong person who in the end didn’t get caught and this flaw is probably his greatest achievement in his life sending
Primarily in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the Northern California region was terrorized by an unknown serial killer, who went simply as the Zodiac Killer. Zodiac was directly linked to 5 murders, but is believed to have been connected to many more; at one time this individual claimed to have taken the lives of 37 victims. Before the first letter was sent in 1969, the first two murders were just killings by an unknown man due to a claim on the deaths, this is meaning that someone did claim responsibility for the two murders in the end of 1968 and the middle of 1969, but it was never pieced together until then. August 1, 1969, the first letter was received, the Zodiac Killer would sent taunting letters to the police about how they have
Charles Manson and the Manson family committed gruesome crimes that shocked Los Angeles in 1969. The actress Sharon Tate and four others were ritualistically slaughtered in her Hollywoods Hills home. The murderers had left cryptic messages on the walls in the victims blood, and law enforcement were stumped by the multiple stab wounds found on the victims. The next day a married couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, who were successful shop owners, were found in their Las Feliz home murdered in the same way as Sharon Tate and her friends.
That is what exactly happened to Betty Jensen and David Faraday on December 20th, 1968. Around eleven o’clock at night, Stella Borges left her house to go on a walk, when she saw the abandoned car and two bodies. She ran to the nearest gas station, and to her luck, Officer William T. Warner was there. The police were baffled as to why anyone would murder the two. Further on, there were no solid leads developed but, another attack had happened by then.
...nd most stunningly, the NSA deciphered cryptographs that contained his name; all pointing to him as the most likely, and the most probable culprit.The Zodiac was one of the most cold and calculating murderers of the twentieth century. His gruesome and violent ways of killing, along with the coinciding of his murders with moon phases, star appearances, radians, and the astrological chart, among other things, also make him the most terrifying murderer of the twentieth century. The scariest thing of all is that this maniac was never caught, and if not dead, is still living somewhere, potentially threatening the lives of the peaceful people around him.
Richard Ramirez, also known as “The Night Stalker” or “The Valley Intruder” terrorized the greater Los Angeles area in the mid-1980s. He was a serial rapist, killer, burglar, and self-described Satanist. The man spent a year breaking into people’s homes, robbing them, then raping and mutilating – often after he had already killed them. Despite the countless murders and sexual assaults that he committed, not once did Ramirez ever show a hint of remorse or fear of the consequences of his actions. When he was finally sentenced, his demeanor did not change and he, along with his cult-like followers simply smirked and laughed. His killings were seemingly random – he killed men, women, and children of all ethnicities and races. He did not kill to prove a point or to make a statement; he killed simply because it gave him pleasure, made him feel powerful and dominant. He wanted to watch the world burn knowing he was the one to cause it. He taunted the police and deliberately left clues behind, laughing at their inability to link him to the crimes. He was arrogant, but in the end he was taken into custody; when that happened, the world breathed a sigh of relief. The mad-man known as the Night Stalker was no longer a threat. It is unclear where Ramirez picked up his sociopathic tendencies – or if he always had them – but regardless, Richard Ramirez was responsible for over forty-three combined counts of murder, attempted murder, sexual assault, and burglary in the end. He was doubtlessly one of the United States’ most infamous serial killers, and still is today.
The Zodiac killer was a serial killer who operated in San Francisco from 1960s to 1970s. The Zodiac killer got this name following a series of letters that contained ciphers that he supposedly sent to the press. The zodiac killer is said to have murdered five known victims between 1968 and 1969 but investigations have never substantially connected the murders. However, there were other murders that the Zodiac killer was tied to even though there was inconclusive evidence to confirm these claims. The last Zodiac murder was reported in 1974 after which the serial killings were never reported again. However, the zodiac killer was never caught and the police closed investigations in 2004.